Challenged to create a fully flexible rig that looks fabulous in a wide variety of venues, is quick and easy to rig and de-rig and will fit into one truck, LD Luc Peumans from Painting With Light designed a rig that includes eight DMX controllable electric ribbon lifts fitted with lights. Divided into eight fabric columns flown at the back, the eight letters of C-L-O-U-S-E-A-U are spelt out along the bottom of the strips.
Read More »CYPRESS, Calif. – Christie has published The Book of Transformations – a “coffee table” style book that explores and celebrates how artists and technicians are using powerful projection display technologies to visually transform familiar structures and objects. The tablet version of The Book of Transformations includes images, embedded video and detailed narratives of how various structures and surfaces were mapped, recreated in software, and then given entirely new appearances using powerful projected light. The Book of Transformations also traces the history of the art form, provides an extensive primer on how projects are conceived and executed, and looks at the future of the technology and medium.
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Portland, OR – Just released by Audinate, Dante HC, the industry’s highest-capacity networked audio solution for professional AV systems, supports up to 512 x 512 redundant bi-directional uncompressed audio channels on a single Xilinx FPGA. Suitable for live broadcast, commercial installation and live sound, Dante offers virtually perfect synchronization, ultra-low deterministic latency and plug-and-play configuration management.
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Following success of the “27 Club” at the St. Pauli theatre in Hamburg, the show has packed up and hit the road, taking along its nine Clay Paky Sharpy Washes. According to LD Roland Greil, adapting the lighting rig to various theaters is eased by the compact design of the Sharpies. “… the Clay Paky Sharpy Washes, are unbeatable precisely because of their extraordinary power packed into such a compact body.”
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SPRINGFIELD, OH – The Spacemaster SX is the first wire rope hoist platform to receive the HMI-Certified License from the Hoist Manufacturers Institute.
NEW YORK — The 2014 NFL Draft, staged at Radio City Music Hall here, was the highest rated ESPN Draft telecast in more than two decades. Christie Lites provided the rig to the specifications of LD Micheal Franks, who included Harman’s Martin Professional fixtures to provide light for the entire venue.
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LONDON – Equipped with 12 chrome GLP impression 90’s, The Hospital Club, a private members’ club and creative arts venue, has unveiled the Oak Room, a new 100-capacity live performance and showcase space. LD Gemma Jaques choose GLP impression 90’s “Because of the room’s low ceiling height the units needed to be LED and relatively small. We were free to use whatever fixtures we thought were the most appropriate in our inventory — and that was clearly our special chrome impression 90. The RGB heads were originally commissioned specifically for television use — but the aesthetic was perfect for the Oak Room.”
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NEW YORK – Looking to keep one of New York’s hottest clubs on the cutting edge, the owners of Mamajuana revamped the club’s look recently, giving the chic nightspot a new color palette with 12 Legend 412 fixtures along two 20-foot I-Beams (six on each) that run along either side of the Mamajuana dance floor. On nights when there isn’t a concert, six additional Legend 412 fixtures will also flood the dance floor. “We like to bathe the floor with very rich colors using a GrandMA to program some dynamic shows. We rely on the intensity of our color beams to touch the crowd without using patterns or gobos. The dance floor is so packed, no one will see any of the patterns you create, so it’s all about the colors and intensity of the beams,” said LD Jason Ayala.
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Elation Professional announces launch of a new moving head in its Rayzor Series of compact and high-speed LED wash luminaires, the Rayzor Q12 Zoom. The fixture houses an 11-39 degree motorized zoom, delivers 5,680 lux of output at 2.5m and offers multiple pixel zone control and chase effects.
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Combining the ‘warmth of Latin American dining with a trendy New York City-esque lounge environment’, Toro Toro Pan Latin Steakhouse creates a club atmosphere with the help of twenty-seven ADJ Sweeper Beams behind the DJ booth. Eight ADJ Vizi Beam Hybrid 2R (moving heads) and two Vizi Roller Beam 2R (innovative 360-degree barrel effects) also play a big part in the setup by providing on-trend beam effects, super-bright output, and low heat output. Holding its own against the 2R fixtures is the Inno Spot Pro, with its wide beam angle working well on the low ceilings and four of ADJ’s Lightning COB Canons provided the final piece of the puzzle, giving audiences a mesmerizing strobe effect.
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Las Vegas, NV – Luminex Network Intelligence has introduced the latest member of its product family, the GigaCore 16RFO Ethernet switch specially tailored for touring applications and designed with the input of key industry players. The unit brings all the advanced functionalities of the GigaCore Ethernet switch range to a custom touring package. The 2U-high device offers rugged optical connector options, including OpticalCon, which can be set at the front or rear of the unit, for a very flexible solution.
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PHOENIX – Clearwing Productions has hired Michael J. Eddy as an Account Executive in their Phoenix office. Mike, who has provided lighting designs for Phoenix performing arts and corporate organizations for decades, also previously served as Phoenix Theatre’s Director of Production for 11 years.
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